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8 Oct 2022, 11:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / VinFast is making everything possible to become a significant player in the electric vehicle market. Apart from building a new factory in the U.S., it hired Pininfarina to design its vehicles and presented an ambitious battery pack subscription. To...
8 Oct 2022, 11:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / VinFast created a battery pack subscription program as an introduction card to global markets. In April, it said the VF 8 would start at $40,700, while the lowest VF 9 price would be $55,500. With the battery pack subscription, how much would these...
7 Oct 2022, 21:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Air is often called the Model S 2.0. With more range delivered thanks to impressive engineering solutions that the company keeps explaining in YouTube videos, Lucid’s electric sedan seemed exempt from Tesla's mistakes. An autoevoluti...
7 Oct 2022, 11:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You may not know this, but Volkswagen was the most valuable car company in Europe until very recently. On October 6, it had a €77.7 billion ($76.6 billion) market cap. On that same day, the German company lost the lead to Porsche, which recent...
7 Oct 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hon Hai did not get to come to market before Luxgen with its Foxtron brand. That was probably a courtesy to its automotive partner, who got to sell the Model C as the Luxgen n7. That did not prevent the Taiwanese giant from presenting new electric ...
6 Oct 2022, 22:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo is taking all precautions to prevent people from calling the future EX90 a revised and electric XC90. Its leaked patent images, the silhouette Volvo recently presented, and how different they are from the Embla's images we've seen s...
6 Oct 2022, 21:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Swindon got famous after offering a Mini electric conversion kit and units of the car already converted for £79,000. Inflation and the pound devaluation must have made this price increase. Despite that, the British company is now offering a c...
6 Oct 2022, 18:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Honda made a deal with GM to use the Ultium platform and have an EV to sell in the U.S. without investing too much. As we already told our readers, most Japanese carmakers are waiting for solid-state cells to invest in electric cars. That made Hond...
6 Oct 2022, 10:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota faced a major embarrassment when its first mass-produced EV presented a weird issue with its hub bolts. In June, the company said 2,700 units of the bZ4X and 2,600 Subaru Solterras could see their wheels go loose due to the issue. At the tim...
5 Oct 2022, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD announced on October 4 that SIXT will buy 100,000 of its electric cars until 2028. Tesla anticipated that sort of deal when it signed a contract with Hertz for the same amount of EVs. It is no surprise some of these cars would get involved in c...
5 Oct 2022, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 4, we brought you a story about Edmunds’ long-term Rivian R1T stopping in the middle of the 405 freeway. Edmunds said the vehicle did not present any warnings and just lost power but took it down a few hours later. We now know why:...
5 Oct 2022, 09:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla stopped using radars in its cars because it would stick with Tesla Vision, that was considered a bizarre cost-cutting measure. The company claims its vehicles are now safer despite the known limitations cameras present in multiple weathe...
4 Oct 2022, 21:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 30, Edmunds reported a concerning issue with the Rivian R1T it bought for a long-term test. On September 28, Carrie Kim and Ryan ZumMallen were driving it on the 405 freeway close to Los Angeles when the electric pickup truck “ex...
4 Oct 2022, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As Aptera gets closer to mass-producing its solar trike, it is now disclosing who are its main partners. Elaphe, for example, will make the in-wheel motors that will move the world’s most aerodynamic electric vehicle. The company now disclose...
4 Oct 2022, 16:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a time when rental car companies buying large amounts of a particular vehicle meant that the carmaker had issues selling these cars to regular customers. To keep production going, these automakers would give rental car businesses massive ...
4 Oct 2022, 13:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / France is the home of important carmakers such as Renault, Peugeot, Citroën, Bugatti, Delage, Facel Vega, and a long et cetera. Yet, the latest car-related news from that country is to tell about ridiculously low new speed limits, banning cars...
3 Oct 2022, 13:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In China, it does not matter if you sell battery electric vehicles (BEVs) or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The Chinese government counts all of them as new energy vehicles (NEVs). If you use that parameter, Tesla sold 343,830 cars in Q3...
3 Oct 2022, 11:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a time Chinese car companies were often accused of copying famous Western automakers’ designs. That is not that far behind us: just check the Ora Punk Cat and try not to mistake it for larger and electric Volkswagen Beetle. However,...
30 Sep 2022, 20:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Water is wet. All cars can float for a while, which makes them total losses if they are not amphibious. Elon Musk did not care about being obvious when he said the Cybertruck would “serve briefly as a boat.” Any car will. He was also re...
30 Sep 2022, 17:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lordstown’s deal with Foxconn gave the new company a bit more air to survive until its electric pickup truck was ready. The company has now disclosed that it just produced the first two units of the Endurance and that a third one is about to ...